Blogging DIY – How to “Recycle” Your Blog Posts!
One of the most important skills for a pro-blogger to have is the ability to “recycle” your blog posts.
How do you Recycle Blog Posts?
It’s rather simple, you simply bring up a lot of your older blog posts on your recent blog posts by linking on relevant sections.
For example, I did a new blog post on Top 30 LED Projects here. Basically I am “recycling” all of my old LED project blog posts.
There’s many other ways to do it, just keep that thought of “recycling blog posts” while you write any blog posts.
If you have hard time finding one of your blog posts, simply do a Google search for, “site:mysite.com oldblogpostkeywordhere”. This should let you find that old blog post easily and you can link to it from your new blog post.
Also, if you want to learn how to do this better, I suggest reading some of the mainstream blogs like Gizmodo, Engadget, Boingboing, or your favorite as they do this consistently on a daily basis.
You can also recycle blog posts on multiple blogs if you have multiple blogs.
For example, I have a blog about eco-friendly and green. Sometimes I will do a blog post on my tech blog featuring an eco-friendly gadget. If there’s relevant information I can link from my eco-friendly blog, I will do that and “recycle” a blog post by referring to it.
Why recycle blog posts?
This is a great way for you to mention older blog posts that might be simply getting old and not getting enough attention. Remember, a blog post is never dead.
Another point is that there’s some SEO benefits when you link back to one of your older blog posts. Perhaps your older blog posts are losing SEO with time (which most blog posts do if the blog is updated often), you might want to “refreshen” that SEO for the older blog posts every once in awhile.
Recycling blog posts is probably one of the overrated skills of a blogger. I don’t even know if there’s a definition for that, perhaps interlinking might be the closest thing to it. Simply put it, it’s referencing your own sources if you have any.
Well, I hope you start recycling more blog posts, great for your visitors and SEO.
Happy bloggin~
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Good tip. I have to start blogging more so I can try this.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I do this sometimes and I just Rotate Posts so that my Readers will Always Have something fresh when they come.